JETman

I wholeheartedly agree with your approach. Unfortunately, law student or not, I believe that alcohol played a large part in the clarity (or lack thereof) of the written communication. I am not sure if it still does.

Heart was also missing. There was already talk that he was backing away from the leadership role he would have had to take on in order to be the team's leadoff man (which is where the Mets would have needed him most with Reyes gone). What athlete worth his salt does that??? Messier he was not. Good riddance, I say. Not really sorry in the least to see him go. Now if the Mets could find a way to get rid of more pieces of dead wood. Pelf anyone?

I picked this up as a Japanese import a few months ago. As expensive as it was, it was still a worthy addition to my collection. As a domestic release, it would have been even more worthy.

It was great day for us NL guys More good news: Giants trade Andres Torres and Ramon Ramirez for Angel Pagan. Though I hated to see Torres go [great OF'er and speedy on the bases; no bat], it is nice to get another bat in the line-up. Which "bat" would that be? If you're speaking of Pagan, as a Mets fan, I know that he possesses little or no heart. I see the swap as a wash - two inconsequential players trading places and offering improvement to neither team.

My guess is that it won't be for a very long time. This was probably one of the conditions for Mosaic's involvement.

Enjoy it, and please let the rest of us know how it is.

I stand corrected. I was counting the couple of live and vocal lp's, especially one with McRae where at least half was just quartet. If there gonna do 19, why not do 25-30, include everything prior to his quartet with Mulligan, and get it over and done with???

Yeah, I meant that there were about 4 or 5 missing, including some NEVER issued on cd. Curious!

Good score! Btw, something about that set looked a little weird to me. I checked and it's not a "complete" set -- a few select titles are excluded. Couldn't figure out their reasoning for not including everything "quartet". It seems to be someone's idea of the quartet's best sudio albums. Btw, I couldn't resist either. This and the MO set should be winging to me soon.

Any type 1 diabetic (even Bobby Clarke) is A-OK in my book. It's a small club.

Europe 1/Trema is legit. Not so sure about Delta. I have a Miles concert boot from the 80s on that label.

Thanks, that is awesome. What a musician he was! Definitely one of my faves.

What experience? As I stated previously, my girlfriend is a pharmacist, and I have friends who work the wholesale side. Well, that's a pretty broad statement to make when one's "experience" is barely touching the industry, which is made up of big business and top-level science. As a scientist working on the R&D side, the corruption is firmly on the business end. Please, make a distinction next time. I meant to place blame on the business side. Thought that was obvious. No offense intended, I assure you. However, as a scientist, you are not working in a vacuum, unless you're creating drugs in your own personal laboratory. You're working for a pharmaceutical company that probably has an agenda of its own, many times one which is not so "pure". Something to think about.

Oy! Btw, Paul, you forgot Winther in the pantheon of European difference-making producers. The Black Saints and Soul Notes were for the most part HORRIBLY recorded and presented. For that, those EYE-talians (and before you get your knickers in a twist, I happen to be one myself) lose points big time. And David, what exactly is the "stabilised music of ECM"??? Some of the very best bad-ass and out there sessions have been recorded for that label, IMHO.

For me, the "unfinished improv business from the late 60s/70s" was what it was all about. To my ears, Manfred Eicher picked up on some of that, smoothed it out, and ran with it. He produced other things too, but not much that interested me. Imo, Giacomo Pelliciotti and Giovanni Bonandrini - Black Saint and Soul Note - were European record company owners/producers who did more to keep the music alive during the 70s, 80s, and into the 90s. And out own Chuck Nessa was, again imo, a more important producer than Manfred Eicher. I think you may be 'slightly' underestimating Eicher's importance in the world of MUSIC.

What experience? As I stated previously, my girlfriend is a pharmacist, and I have friends who work the wholesale side.

Again, this will NOT happen. The FDA will not go for it, and the outcry in the healthcare community alone would be enough to squash it. My girlfriend's a pharmacist and is paid to know these things.

perhaps this could be justified by slightly reducing tablet strength. No. More likely by a payoff to the FDA.

FWIW, it's not likely that the FDA would approve a drug like Lipitor for over-the-counter sale since patients who take it are strongly advised to have their liver function tested quarterly. In other words: no prescribing doctors = no guarantee that this will happen.

Maybe not avant-garde, but definitely out: the Jackie McLean Mosaic is one of my faves, along with some of the boxes already mentioned.

From experience, I know that the pharmaceutical industry is HIGHLY corrupt. What else is new?

http://www.greenleafmusic.com/threeviews You could do much worse for yourself than snapping this up immediately!

Lots of assumptions and leaps of faith in yer thinking there. And....you're not saying anything that hasn't been said a zillion times over in WAY more complex terms. Your placement of blame on Catholics, or even Puritans, is HIGHLY offensive. I've been talking about the BIGGER problem (in relation to the PSU scandal) all along, but not in the terms you use. What's your solution??? As the saying goes, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

FWIW, Berne's connection to ECM is through his wife (not through Torn nor Formanek). She did at one time (and maybe still does) work for Manfred.

Where do you notice that Tim Berne has a new release due on ECM? He told me years ago that he'd never do a leader date for Eicher.